Accidental Love

In fact, the second Zheng Shuyi left the bathroom, Xu Yuling immediately followed out as well.

As the two walked back towards the office area, they were only a few meters apart.

Normally, it was normal for two people to be walking together. Although they wouldn't be holding hands or anything, they were usually side by side and chatting.

But this time, the two of them were like complete strangers. One's face was filled with joy, and the other's was just the opposite.

Zheng Shuyi looked at her phone calmly while some of her colleagues looked at her with a confused expression. Then, she got up and walked toward Tang Yi's office.

The matter she had been stressing about was finally settled. It didn't take Tang Yi too much effort to settle this conflict between her employees and the worry she had when she received Xu Yuling's draft this morning disappeared into the air. At the moment, she sat lazily in her office chair and spun a pen in her hand. She smiled at Zheng Shuyi, who was sitting in front of her.

"This is indeed Xu Yuling's fault. I already warned her and I'll keep this in mind while judging the reporters' performance and ranking at the end of the year. I will also definitely prevent this from happening in the future."

She saw Zheng Shuyi's unchanged expression and continued, "Well we're all in the same group. You'll still meet her every day. We shouldn't fire her just because of this, right?"

After working under Tang Yi for these years, Zheng Shuyi already knew that this was her usual sloppy method of solving a conflict. She wasn't expecting an explanation from her anyway.

It was just that although Xu Yuling didn't succeed this time, she was still very mad at what had happened.

Zheng Shuyi looked down at her nails and didn't say anything.

From Tang Yi's position, she could only see Zheng Shuyi's eyelashes which covered over her eyes, but from the shape of her mouth, she could still see a bit of dissatisfaction.

Tang Yi suddenly felt a bit helpless. As a woman herself, she could no longer bear Zheng Shuyi's depressed expression. Her expression looked like a combination of hatred, anger, and spoiledness. It would be difficult for anyone to look at such an expression.

She suddenly thought of Zheng Shuyi's ex-boyfriend.

What kind of woman did he meet to dump such a beauty?

Or are men just like this?

There was an awkward silence in the office.

Tang Yi was suddenly caught up in this thought, and it wasn't until a sudden remind on her phone did she recover. She read the message as she said, "Let's end this thing here alright? Her draft wouldn't be used and you'll definitely receive the headline for Q4 of this year."

Zheng Shuyi let out a quiet En. When she stood up, she suddenly heard Tang Yi trying to comfort her again, "We didn't choose your's for compensation, it's really because the amount of information you had is way more than her's. Same interviewee, almost same outline, yet such a difference in the product."

"Ok," Zheng Shuyi raised her eyebrows and showed a little smile on her face, "It is what it is. I guess Shi Yan just likes me more."

"Okay," Tang Yi glanced at her while finishing up some meeting materials.

The glance was as if she was saying, "Are you high? What nonsense are you talking about?"

"Knowing that you are one of the best members of our team, you don't have to be so humble."

Zheng Shuyi: "…"

She wasn't being humble.

Isn't I just a person who gets favored because of my prettiness?

——

"What did the editor-in-chief say?"

In the afternoon, there was a summit forum at the Financial Center. The magazine team arranged Zheng Shuyi and Kong Nan to attend together. On the way, the two naturally started talking about Xu Yuling.

Kong Nan saw that Zheng Shuyi looked pretty happy and thought that things probably didn't go too wrong. "Did she deal with it properly?"

"How proper can she handle this?" Zheng Shuyi took out a small makeup mirror and said slowly, "It's not as if you don't know Editor Tang. Make a big issue small, then dissolve the small issue. What do you think she'll do? Make Xu Yuling kneel under the flag and beg for forgiveness?"

"Tsk…"

Kong Nan shook his head and made an expression of disgust. "This kind of stuff started happening when I was just a student in our newspaper club. I can't believe things like this are still going on in the real world. I really can't handle this kind of disgusting people."

Although Zheng Shuyi didn't reply, she pressed her powder puff firmly.

She held grudges against people and wouldn't let her foes get away easily.

Twenty minutes later, the taxi arrived at the destination and was pulling over.

Zheng Shuyi sat on the right and got out of the car first. Kong Nan was about to go out as well when Zheng Shuyi suddenly shoved her back into the car and closed the door.

"What are you doing?!" Kong Nan got frightened by her sudden movement and was nearly sitting on the driver's seat. She looked at Zheng Shuyi in horror. "Is the floor out there on fire?"

"Shhh!" Zheng Shuyi held her index finger over our mouth and breathed heavily.

She just saw Yue Xingzhou.

It wasn't unusual to see Yue Xingzhou here, after all, this was where he worked.

But what surprised her was that he got off the driver's seat of a Mercedes-Benz.

He changed the car already???

For a moment, Zheng Shuyi felt as if her head was smoking from anger.

In normal circumstances, she wouldn't be afraid to run into Yue Xingzhou.

It was just that currently, Yue Xingzhou was driving a Mercedes-Benz, and she was sitting in a taxi. The difference was such an embarrassment.

Seeing that Zheng Shuyi didn't reply, Kong Nan peeked through the window to see what was going on. As she was glancing around, she also saw Yue Xingzhou.

He walked to the trunk of that car, took something out, and then left.

Kong Nan blinked, "Isn't that your boyfriend?"

"…"

"I'll make a wild guess, did you guys break up?"

"…"

"And you were the one being dumped."

"…"

"If I'm guessing correctly, not only were you dumped, but he also cheated on you."

"…"

"Okay, and it seems that his new girlfriend is very rich. Look at his new car."

Zheng Shuyi sighed and watched Yue Xingzhou go farther. She felt relieved and then stared at Kong Nan angrily.

"You don't have to expose everything so accurately…"

Kong Nan was not surprised at all what she guessed. In fact, she was even a bit proud of herself. "Collecting information on the point and being able to fully interrupt it. If I don't even have this ability, I can't even be a qualified journalist, right?"

Zheng Shuyi: "…"

It wasn't until Yue Xingzhou entered a coffee shop did Zheng Shuyi open the car door and walk down. Kong Nan quickly followed.

"I mean, it's alright," seeing Zheng Shuyi walking at a quick pace, Kong Nan also started to speed up after taking another look at the Mercedes Benz parked on the side of the road. "It's just a C-Class, maybe just a couple hundred thousand yuan1approx forty to fifty thousand USD. It's not even that good of a car, rich people wouldn't even lay an eye on it. If we work a bit harder, we'll be able to afford it eventually too."

With that said, Zheng Shuyi also looked back at the car and Shi Yan's image appeared in his mind.

He's riding a Rolls-Royce and Bentley himself and only got a couple hundred thousand yuan, Mercedes Benz, for his niece.

What a stingy man!

Thinking of Shi Yan, Zheng Shuyi felt her empty earlobe and started to think to herself.

——

In the evening, the first rush hour of Jiang City came. Pedestrians walked quickly on the busy streets, and vehicles went past constantly.

A black Rolls Royce slowly merged into the traffic.

Shi Yan sat in the back row, took off his glasses, closed his eyes, and rubbed his knees. Beside his hand was a meeting agenda.

The moment he opened his eyes, he noticed a small object on the seat next to him.

He placed on his glasses and took a closer look. It was a pearl earring.

Shi Yan picked it up and thought about who might have left it here. Then, sitting in the front row, Chen Sheng's phone rang.

After he answered the call, he said “huh-uh” twice, then after hesitating for a moment, he turned around and handed the phone over.

“Mr. Shi, Reporter Zheng Shuyi from ‘Finance Daily' wants to talk to you."

Shi Yan lowered his eyes, grabbed onto the earring with one hand, and took Chen Sheng's phone with the other.

He calmly greeted, and Zheng Shuyi immediately began to talk.

After saying "Mr. Shi", her tone sounded with a bit of panic.

"I think I left my earring on your car. Did you happen to see it? It's a pearl earring."

Shi Yan opened his hand with the earring in it.

As night was about to fall, the sky changed from dim yellow to dark blue. A slim ray of the car's headlights let out a reflection on the pearl earring in his palm.

"Nope."

"…" Zheng Shuyi paused for a second, and then continued, "Can you please check again? The earring's important to me."

"How important?"

"…" Zheng Shuyi paused again.

That's not the point!

Whatever.

"My… grandmother gave it to my mother. And the mother passed it on to me."

There is no reply from the other side.

Zheng Shuyi swallowed her spit then continued, "It's really important to our family."

Still no reply.

Zheng Shuyi took a deep breath and made a pitiful crying voice, "It's…my dowry2property or money brought by a bride to her husband on their marriage. I'm planning to wear it when I get married. Every time I see it, it reminds me of my grandmother. I haven't seen her in a very very long time."

Her acting was very affectionate and sounded extremely pitiful.

After another moment of silence, Shi Yan's cold voice sounded,

"Oh, I see it now."

Zheng Shuyi squinted her eyes and smiled. She walked in a circle while happily thinking to herself.

Using my earrings to get a chance to meet him. Success!

"Then…"

Zheng Shuyi didn't finish her words. She wanted to wait and see what Shi Yan's reaction would be.

The calm voice on the other side sounded again.

"Your dowry is made of plastic."

Zheng Shuyi: "…"

• 1approx forty to fifty thousand USD
• 2property or money brought by a bride to her husband on their marriage